Kraft could have taken Goodell to court and won. But Bob knows that would have been cutting off his nose to spite his face. That kind of intense courtroom scrutiny would have exposed the extent of that sort of thing league-wide. And Bob knows that could only in the end hurt the credibility of the league and therefore hurt his team even more than taking it on the chin for Goodell's stupidity did.

If only BB was not so dumb as to keep doing it after the memo came out, Goodell wouldn't have had a chance to be the moron that he is.

I like to see the Pats get the number one pick over all as a compensatory pick in reparation for the Jet employee (Goodell) taking the 2008 pick when the other Jet employee (Mangina) b!tched. The Pats really need a quality player:)

Kraft could have taken Goodell to court and won. But Bob knows that would have been cutting off his nose to spite his face. That kind of intense courtroom scrutiny would have exposed the extent of that sort of thing league-wide. And Bob knows that could only in the end hurt the credibility of the league and therefore hurt his team even more than taking it on the chin for Goodell's stupidity did.

If only BB was not so dumb as to keep doing it after the memo came out, Goodell wouldn't have had a chance to be the moron that he is.

I wonder if this tagliabue ruling would give Kraft a new angle to approach it.

The penalty was ridiculous and excessive without ANY court review. Why not due process...?

Kraft could have taken Goodell to court and won. But Bob knows that would have been cutting off his nose to spite his face. That kind of intense courtroom scrutiny would have exposed the extent of that sort of thing league-wide. And Bob knows that could only in the end hurt the credibility of the league and therefore hurt his team even more than taking it on the chin for Goodell's stupidity did.

If only BB was not so dumb as to keep doing it after the memo came out, Goodell wouldn't have had a chance to be the moron that he is.

I wonder if this tagliabue ruling would give Kraft a new angle to approach it.

The penalty was ridiculous and excessive without ANY court review. Why not due process...?

Kraft didn't need that to approach it. He had all the angle he needed. He didn't contest it for the good of the NFL (and thus himself). Goodell is a MORON. The damage was done. Kraft wasn't going to expand the damage out of spite for Goodell's stupidity.

Confused. Do you want Kraft and BB to appeal that the punishments were too severe?

There's no doubt that the Pats did something. Whether it helped a lot or a little can't be determined since Goodell "burned" the tapes.

Don't see how the Pats could win in this situation. Only thing this does is take Goodell down. However, bringing spygate up might not be best for the organization.

Only thing that could possibly help the Pats would be if the publicized. Biggest thing that could've helped was the alleged tape of Herm Edwards waving at the camera. If Herm knew the Pats were taping, I'm sure other coaches had an idea too...which would probably make spygate completely useless.

Goodell is such a doofus. The whole power-trip thing has blown up in his face. It's better to not rock the boat and rule consistently. Spygate was the biggest pile of horsesh*t so far blown out of proportion it was laughable. Any fan that puts any weight whatsoever in spygate conspiracy theories loses all credibility in my book. The whole thing was fueled by jealousy.